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HTC Touch Pro2 review

By Clare Hopping, 26 Jun 2009

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Price as reviewed:£500 exc. VAT
Best price: £623.99

With a tilt screen, slide-out keyboard and speakerphone, the HTC Touch Pro2 sets out its serious business credentials? But is it the phone for you?

Connectivity-wise, the HTC Touch Pro2 supports HSPA with uploads to 2Mbps and downloads to 7.2Mbps, though what you actually get is down to your network’s capabilities.

Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS are all built in with Google Maps enabling you to start taking advantage of the GPS immediately.

TV-Out support is also included, but there’s no cable in the box for this – you’ll have to track down an accessory.

With 512MB of ROM and 288MB of RAM, there is plenty of memory on board and straight out of the box our review sample had 252MB of free storage, with a 1GB memory card included.

You can add more with a microSD card, and a slot is under the back plate on the left edge of the casing.

The HTC Touch Pro2 may be a hefty device, but there are a whole lot of impressive business-centric features packed into that casing. Handy additions such as a dual-tilting screen, speakerphone and large keyboard contribute to the size, but are good enough to make it a price worth paying. The TouchFLO 3D skin disguises Windows Mobile better than ever and the proximity sensor that silences the phone or turns it into a speaker is very useful.

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Richard Heuston

Is it possible when reviewing phones to actually tell us how well they work as a phone? The Touch Pro2 seems to be the type of phone that I have being waiting for, but living in Northern Ireland and working in areas with poor mobile coverage I need to know whether the phone will actually ring if someone calls me or just goes to answer phone.When I changed my phone last year from a Sony Ericsson to a Nokia E66 (both on Orange) I noticed how poor the E66 was taking incomming calls. My friends and I carried out an experiment in our local yacht club with My Nokia E66, a Nokia 6300 and an LG Viewty all on Orange, and as Orange recommends when you complain about missed calls, 3G was turned off. All phones were set in the same place while someone else called them. The LG Viewty did not take any calls with all going to Answer Phone, My E66 showing two bars of signal took two calls and failed on three. On the three that failed the phone went to no service as the call was comming in. The Nokia 6300 took five calls in a row with no failures! This the type of phone review that I want to read!

By Ip5_25dbc0ef616 on Friday Jun 26

how can i have one of that?

actually, i dont have my personal phone, and i cannot afford having one because i and my family are sruggling financially and just being a college student, i am hard up to afford one because of other school expenses. Due of not having a cellular phone i cannot easily access communication with my parents,classmates, teachers and important appointments. Can you tell me how can i afford that stuff? i am really in need of my personal cellphone,, can i have one of that,, pls... thank you and more power to your company... chatte of philippines baguio

By chatterley on Saturday Jun 27